Não se pode amar e ser feliz ao mesmo tempo: casamento e tragédia em Otelo, de William Shakespeare, e A mulher sem pecado, de Nelson Rodrigues

Abstract

This dissertation will provide a comparative reading of William Shakespeare s Othello and Nelson Rodrigues s A mulher sem pecado. The hypothesis to be investigated is that marriage constitutes a profitable scenario for the emergency of tragedy, as we think of marriage as a possible site of tension between individual discourse and the confluence of other discourses that circulate in society, introducing patriarchal prejudice misogyny in particular which is incorporated by the individual as absolute truth. It would be thus reproduced in marriage the conflict that defines tragedy, that is, the tension between the individual and some power superior to it, which may be embodied in its own subjectivity if we consider modern tragedy